Reel world : an anthropology of creation / Anand Pandian ; with a foreword by Walter Murch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pandian, Anand, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry--India--Tamil Nadu.

Motion picture industry.

Motion pictures--Production and direction--India--Tamil Nadu.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--India--Tamil Nadu.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

India--Tamil Nadu.

Physical Description:

xv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Reel World explores what happens to life when everything begins to look and feel like cinema. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers, artists, musicians, and craftsmen in the south Indian movie studios of "Kollywood," Anand Pandian examines how ordinary moments become elements of a cinematic world. With inventive, experimental, and sometimes comical zeal, Pandian pursues the sensory richness of cinematic experience and the adventure of a writing true to these sensations. With the visceral power of sound and image, his stories also broach deeply philosophical themes such as desire, time, wonder, and imagination. In a spirit devoted to the turbulence and uncertainty of genesis, Reel World brings into focus an ecology of creative process: the many forces, feelings, beings, and things that infuse human endeavors with transformative potential. Book jacket.

Contents:

Reel world

Dreams

Hope

Space

Art

Love

Desire

Light

Color

Time

Imagination

Pleasure

Sound

Voice

Rhythm

Speed

Wonder

Fate

An anthropology of creation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327) and index.

ISBN:

9780822359579

082235957X

9780822360001

0822360004

0822375168

9780822375166

OCLC:

903284707